Dvorák, Antonín

Preface

Antonín Leopold Dvořák – The Jacobin, opera in three acts, op. 84, B200

(8 September 1841 Nelahozeves [near Prague], Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic] – 1 May 1904 in Prague, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic])

Text by Marie Červinková-Riegrová (auch der Librettist für Dimitrij, 1882)
German Translation by Pavel Ludikar and Ilse von Rinesch-Hellmich

Date of Composition
17 February – 7 December 1897 (expansion of his original version,
composed 10 November 1887 – 18 November 1888)

Premiere
19 June 1898, by the National Theatre Orchestra and Choir under the direction of Adolf Čech

Publications
The Burghauser catalog of Dvořák scores numbers this [revised] version of the work B200. The original 1888 version is numbered B159. The first modern edition of B200 (Czech text only) with extensive scholarly notes was published by Státní hudební vydavatelství (Prague, 1966). The piano reduction for B200 was edited and revised from Dvořák’s manuscript by Otakar Šourek by Roman Veselý (Prague: Hudební Matice Umělecké Besedy, 1943).

Orchestration
9 soloists, SATB chorus (servants, musketeers, townspeople, country folk), and children’s choir
Main orchestra: 3 piccolos, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon,
4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, harp, organ, strings
Offstage orchestra: 2 piccolos, 2 trumpets, trombone, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, strings

Nine Solo Roles
Count Vilém of Harasov/Count William of Harrasov, famous general – Bass
Bohuš/Theodor, his son – Baritone
Adolf/Rudolphus, his nephew – Baritone
Julie, Gottfried’s wife – Sopran
Filip, Burgrave/Castellan (the governor of the Count’s castle) – Bass
Jiří/George, a young gamekeeper– Tenor
Benda, schoolmaster/choirmaster/composer – Tenor
Terinka, Benda’s daughter – Soprano
Lotinka/Charlotte, old keeper of the keys in the castle – Alt

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